on closing guantanamo you have closed for business so even though then candidate obama ran on the platform of closing this torture house making it seem like it was a natural priority for him it couldn't be more apparent now that it's completely off his radar so here's the lesson kids if it first you don't succeed at closing and internationally condemned prison camp don't try again and remember obama doesn't have to worry about reelection anymore so for all of you expect him to change now in his second term probably start investing your hope elsewhere. imagine that this scenario you're sit in your house your cake and bag you're watching t.v. and all of a sudden you hear the deafening sound of machine gun fire from low flying helicopters overhead you're probably a little startled the hell you might even think the world war three was going down

well the black helicopters flying above might not come as a surprise if you live right here in d.c. but if you live in any other u.s. city this probably isn't the norm but that could be changing take a look at what happened in miami last week. like all choppers soaring into the night sky but this is only a drill but it's like mars or explaining what's going on like still if you've seen one of these drills you'd really like to see i don't want to use action movies choppers stalking the sky downtown miami and the like. and probably hit the deck too but this didn't just happen in miami take a look at how residents reacted to the same kind of drills going on in houston. military helicopters flying above per se houston neighborhood went. interest

generals know what to think you know when you see things you think the words when you hear it you think the work and so she passed along her concern she told me don't call the son of everyone a war zone dog huge news helicopters down over half. the army along with other agencies had taken over the old carnegie vanguard high school there were armed men in for tea plenty of weapons and what many thought were real live brown. comforting and although police sent out a warning that there would be a joint military training exercise there was no mention of when and where it would happen and a statement by miami police that said quote this is a routine training conducted by military personnel designed to ensure the military's ability to operate in urban environments routine training it's funny i don't remember police and military firing machine guns in my neighborhood growing up is it really necessary to simulate military operations that scare the living dickens out of people you know this reminds me of when i lived in oakland during

the police crackdown of occupy there was a two week period where there were about five police helicopters constantly hovering above my neighborhood and after a couple days i seriously started losing sleep and becoming severely stressed and paranoid as i started become conditioned to live in what had become a militarized police state so all of this really begs the question why is the us starting to condition us to be comfortable living in a constant state of fear surveillance and military aggression what are they really planning for. the letter. never seen anything like that. so guys right now i'd like to shift the focus and talk about something talk sick but you and i are ingesting every single day g m o's better known as genetically modified foods but don't take it from me. take

a look at the developing science most recently to researchers representing the european food safety authority or the as a discover that the most common gene in commercial g m o's is virus written report states this viral gene called genes six might not be safe for human consumption. shocker and guess what the scientists found that fifty four of eighty six plants approved for use in the us contain that very gene keep in mind those are the same plants being fed to the animals that you and i are aids milk and meat from nice but of course even after discovering all of the they didn't recall the genes six containing crops no instead they just released a retroactive risk assessment of the gene so to talk about this genetically mutating virus in the fight to get g.m.o. foods off of our grocery shelves or at least labeled i'm joined now by alexis baden mayer political director for the organic consumers association thank you so much

for coming on thank you so talk about this jeanne what effect does it really have an crops well it's very interesting i am not actually not surprised that they discovered this because they never really looked into it before right but it's really scary one of the properties of this viral gene is that it can break down the defenses of the plant and we're not so different from plants when it comes to how viruses attack us and some viruses that attack plants have been known to attack humans as well so the way gene six works is it breaks down the defenses and gets in after that so not only would it break down the defenses to six it would break down the plants defenses to any type of virus that might attack us. you know i was actually surprised to hear this body rejected the claim that it was hazardous and then also did not recall the crops i mean it seems like europe is more cautious with the whole g.m.o. issue why do you think that they were downplaying the seriousness of this well the . not eating as much of these things as we are is actually

a lot more serious for the u.s. population in europe they have labeling and so they don't put a lot of genetically engineered ingredients directly into the food they do eat a lot of milk meat and eggs as you mentioned that from animals that are fed these plants but u.s. consumers are actually eating the plants so it's probably up to our food safety regulators to recall it to protect us. well you know let's talk about our food safety regulators because you know here you have obama claiming during his campaign he was going to label g m o's and then you have him in his cabinet full of santa lobbyist then you even have michelle obama with her who are getting a garden initiative i mean really what is going on here does monsanto essentially own the government at this point and there hasn't been a presidential administration that didn't have monsanto plant inside of it there's a man named michael taylor who's currently in charge of food safety at the f.d.a.

and he used to work for months and he's a lawyer but he passed this is himself as a food safety expert he doesn't have any real expertise and all of his knowledge comes from working inside of the industry but he's been in past administrations and now he's still in the obama administration revolving door keep going round and round and you know vermont passing this labeling law and then being scared to actually put it into effect because of their fear of a lawsuit for months and i mean what does this really say about the state of even our ability to be proactive with this issue i think that legislators have to give up that lame excuse i think it's time for laws to be passed that challenge monsanto to find santa wants to take them to court so be it but we need to have some shred of democracy it would be great to see monsanto versus the state take it to the supreme court and really take this i mean take truth to power here it's just absurd let's talk about you know what you just said were europe pretty much labels g m o's at least. bans them in

a lot of instances we're the only industrialized countries that does neither. according to the national institute of health study the us health is worse than almost all of these other industrialized countries when it comes in for mortality diabetes obesity different diseases do you think there's a connection here there's definitely a connection and but you don't have to believe that the connection is g.m. just look at where g.m.o. is our diet high fructose corn syrup trans fats and milk meat negs from factory farms so we know all those things are bad for us they're also happen to be genetically engineered now that we know about genes six we know that our ability to resist disease might be broken down by getting these genetically engineered genes into the food system so you know there's there's no end to what may be happening but certainly anybody who is aware of this stop eating foods with trans fats. corn syrup and stop eating foods from factory farms these are where the g m o's are we

know it's bad for us so you know anybody who is informed at least that much can do a good job of cutting out of their diet well let's talk about that because i was really shocked to hear about this whole foods story i know that in two thousand and eleven you and some other activists were actually arrested at a whole foods because you're protesting there there kind of. propaganda campaign i want to say about how everything is organic or natural but i mean really it's not talk about this well hole this is actually certified as aggression under the u.s.d.a. national program and they've got the big u.s.d.a. seal right when you walk in so i think that most consumers would assume that there isn't anything genetically modified in whole foods but it's not all or can it and so if you pick up for instance a kashi cereal they have a cereal that that is almost all soy and also is genetically modified in the united states so if it's not organic which it isn't go lean cereal then you're eating a product that's almost entirely. and that's something that's sold in health food

stores it's sold in whole foods and yet they hang the big u.s. kafeel over the doorway and let the consumers walk again thinking everything's fine it's so disingenuous because i think a lot of people when they shop at stores like this are trader joe's or whole foods they just automatically think you know i'm making a better more healthy choice but really it's a branding campaign yeah it's kind of that greenwashing where it's still the same dangers is that it may be even worse because you don't know you are dramatically you think let's talk about the testino because i don't know if people actually realize how these tests are done and that they're not independently done rather done by these actual companies that produce the gym clothes that's right and even when the f.s.a. was looking at possible other unintended effects that may have happened when they created these genetically modified crops they were. they're just looking at things that should have been looked at a long time ago and it's you know it's been years since these things have been on the market and they're doing the first objective look at the science that came from

monsanto and the other biotech industry companies so yeah this is ridiculous even in europe they're not doing independent testing they have the companies word and they basically just take that and they don't even do the follow up investigations and so you know decades later we're learning about this new virus all looks as why should we trust the company that made agent orange that's higher in police officers to threaten farmers i mean come on we should trust monsanto's word well thank you so much for coming on we definitely to keep pushing forward this issue in light of prop thirty seven failing i mean let's just keep pushing forward thank you so much for everything you do alexis bade and their little director organic consumers' association thank you so much and. so if you like what you see so far subscribe to our channel at youtube dot com breaking the set and watch a solid blue blue dot com plug break into the search and like us on facebook at facebook dot com slash breaking into us if you're one about what i'm doing when i'm not on our phone moment at. a different approach from now but stay tuned to hear why the two. abel's are turning on the empire's next.

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to a l.a. a. live. you know it's hard to believe how much has changed in the world since the two thousand and nine lobel financial crisis the hurt that financial institutions felt following the great recession has changed the landscape of the world economy and case in point as latin america earlier this week leaders met in chile for a summit where the general attitude was to get in on the region's recent economic boom german chancellor angela merkel of the twenty seven nation delegation said this is now a strategic relationship between equal partners this is a huge change in attitude from just five years ago when the same summit king juan

carlos called venice where those who were chavez to shut up regardless the numbers speak for themselves according to a recent world bank study more than fifty million people in latin america enter the middle class over the last fifteen years this is the first time in history that middle class growth has outpaced population growth but of course the implications closer to home when you consider the wealth inequality in latin america has been narrowing in recent years that's been steadily growing in the u.s. and perhaps the biggest question we're left asking after such a massive hit to the u.s. economy is regarding the reliability of western economic models that are characterized here by a growing gap between the rich and the poor so while many still regard latin america as a continent of wealth disparities dictatorships and perpetual rebellion the truth is that the tables are turning on old empires so they help me break down the trends that are shaping latin america into a global economic superpower i'm joined by b.t.s. producer manwell rappel oh hi let's talk about this latest summit i mean what is

prompting the change in attitude here sure of the summit in chile. what we're seeing now and it's like you mentioned it's a very very kind of change in tone it's a shift in the way that europe is approaching latin america and it's you can compare this it's night and day between five years ago and today and what we're seeing this is kind of a signal that you're. is ready to beulah america more as a partner in ways that it didn't before and why i mean i have to do is look at europe you can look at spain sixty percent uppers of sixty percent unemployment or you can look at germany europe's largest economy dealing with. struggling with that with the public debt crisis and last year the eurozone nearly collapsed in on it so if you compare that to latin america who's going through this great economic boom and it's kind of a no brainer who has the upper hand there but back to the question as to why latin america's experiencing this growth you can look at latin america for the last fifteen years and there's a great economist and her name's escaping the north nor listed she's from tulane

university and what she points to is that narrowing in the wealth disparity in latin america and this is because we have to look at latin america kind of very broadly to really to really address this because each country is going to be different but for the most part latin american countries are doing is that they're investing heavily in secondary education and investing heavily in these kind of social welfare welfare programs point more money into pensions pouring money into into these they're called conditional cash transfers and in brazil what they do is that it's an incentive program so that kids so that more kids are going to school and these kids are staying in school longer what this is doing alternately is having a positive economic outcome and it's reducing the wealth gap and that's that's happening almost across the board in latin america and you compare the united states where wealth inequality is going up so you can kind of see what's going on in latin america where literally the growth really be sustained i mean i do think

that these programs will inevitably have some sort of backlash sure and i think that that's kind of an interesting way to put it whether or not it's sustainable i think the united nations does forecasts for latin america as a region mean to to be experiencing this positive economic growth at least through two thousand and thirteen so it's going to be in the short term things are still looking good at the same time latin america is reaping the benefits of having put all this money. into public schools and secondary school investments but at some point or another economic growth slows down or even stops so we need to look at what's going to happen when that happens what they're going to do when that happens what latin america does have on their side is that they don't rely on these models of unsustainable debt so they do have that on their side so in the meantime they really don't have any reason to be going a different direction than they're going right now and you know it's definitely under reported aspect of the global financial situation right now manny that the fact that the gap is closing in and while at the same time in this country it's widening more and more every year i mean do you think that this is

a reason why we're not hearing about it because they're kind of showing how these models are outdated and they can kind of surpass them sure i mean the question of whether or not capitalism it's being kind of flipped in on its head and that's kind of a two part question because it's yes and it's you can look at argentina and you can look at venezuela which of these hard left assets seizing countries that are experiencing positive growth so the answer there would be yes or you could look at chile and colombia which have more orthodox economic approaches and the answer would be no or mexico and peru who don't even look at ideology they're just you know looking at the bigger box and are also experiencing economic growth so that's kind of a tricky question but if you apply that here in the united states i think that the traditional outlook that people had towards capitalism is shifting that idea that glowing idea that western capitalism was the way to go is changing in this country and you can see this because people just have to look at the economy and when you look at the state of the economy people look at people look at a number of things they look at unsustainable debt they look at systemic failures

in the health care system in the back in the banking sector they look at high unemployment the growing wealth disparity and they look at a dysfunctional government these are things that people look at here in the united states and that is signaling a shift in the mentality of this country in the way people approaches and we don't hear about this from a lot of yeah we don't hear this. from the mainstream maybe because economics isn't sexy maybe because corporate media has a corporate bottom line but i mean i really don't know but i think you just hit it on the head right there with the corporate media want to inform us of the systemic failures of the you know predatory capitalism that we're seeing right now. you know and it's you know you really don't know this is that for decades the united states has been exploiting american democracy and american and western capitalism to other countries in the world and giving this as a sort of roadmap for economic prosperity and what are we seeing in latin america received countries that haven't adopted this road map are still showing signs of

economic growth and what they're doing is that they're kind of positioning themselves as being these innovating global power players and that's what's changing the world so what's the what's the united states going to do the united states government is going to continue seeing pressure from even from within the government to stop pursuing these policies of democratizing countries abroad and fighting these ideological and a movie absolutely hoped it was these countries pull more leverage in the global situation thank you so much for coming on man. yes producer. i. i want to talk to you about something that used to be a very prominent practice right here in the united states eugenics eugenics is a movement of people that think human populations can be improved there's selective breeding and forced sterilization proponents of the practice actually believe that

their social status is due to their disappear your genetic make up shockingly eugenics played a significant role in the cultural development of many institutions in the us it was a widely accepted cultural norm in fact in one nine hundred thirty seven fortune magazine poll so that only fifteen percent of americans opposed the practice. actually the u.s. pioneered the sterilization movement against defective genetic traits which then pave the way for hitler's widespread genocidal practice of eugenics against minorities in germany even though the nazi party considered the us an ally in the eugenics movement world war two greatly changed the american perception of the inhumane practice but before this find the condemned in the us it effected an estimated sixty five thousand native american african-american and disabled women who had all been forcibly sterilized soon after the sentiment spread worldwide it was considered a violation of human rights it almost every international body which now say the

perpetrators of this practice should be punished and the victims compensated in fact according the convention on the prevention and punishment of the crime of genocide one of the factors listed as an act of genocide is the intent to destroy a national ethnic racial or religious group of imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group. fast forward to today what would you say if i told you that your general still in full effect and even worse that it's been administered by a first world democracy yep believe it or not the israeli government has been forcibly administering birth control to. a segment of the population for the first time an israeli government official has publicly acknowledged their practice of injecting ethiopian jewish women against their will with contraceptives israel is a country that has experienced a significant influx of ethiopian immigrants during the last two decades now some

one hundred thirty thousand ethiopians most of whom are jewish live in the country however the ethiopian minority population is heavily marginalized and segregated not to mention the experience exponentially higher poverty and unemployment rates than that of native israelis and in fact there have been multiple instances of racist mobs who have vandalized and harassed ethiopian neighborhoods and even these nationalists are even supported by some members of the israeli knesset at one nationalist rally the knesset minister. described illegal immigrants as a quote cancer to the country but these instances of racism have long plagued israel back in one thousand nine hundred six thousands of ethiopian jews clashed with riot police over the news that blood they donated was secretly dumped out because of fear that was contaminated with aids but perhaps more disturbing than all of this is that the ethiopian jewish population has been struggling with a staggering fifty percent decline in their birth rate over the last decade and

this week we've finally been able to confirm why according to israel news source or reds the government has been injecting ethiopian jewish immigrants with depor of vera hormonal contraceptives and they've been doing it without their consent or knowledge one investigative journalist who interviewed thirty five of the opium immigrants found that they were intimidated and threatened that taking the shots which they were told were merely inoculations not only is this completely inhumane and despicable it's also a complete violation of human rights and female sovereignty and making their own reproductive choices but even though they have now admitted to the practice that denied wrongdoing. in light of the scandal israel's health minister now claims that gynaecologists have been ordered quote not to renew prescriptions for doctor of vera for women of ethiopian origin if for any reason there is concern that they might not understand the ramifications of the treatment. graced but

what about the compensation for the victims what about the accountability for the perpetrators sorry but this is really government from word just doesn't cut it when they already act with complete impunity the part that really irks me though is the utter hypocrisy. israel has the only country in the world that was paved first specific group of people that experience such horrific discrimination and genocide and for that same group of people to now use hitler's methods against another minority to maintain a jewish majority isn't same i guess it's true when they say history repeats itself .

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